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Four months ago two top former high school quarterbacks were starting for UCLA and USC. Josh Rosen of UCLA and Max Browne of USC were two of the best quarterbacks coming out of high school and they were set to lead their perspective schools to the promised land. On Saturday both players will be on the sidelines when the teams take the field at the Rose Bowl at 7:30 p.m. Rosen is recovering from shoulder surgery and Browne lost his starting job after the Trojans started the season 1-2. Now UCLA...
The USC Trojans will play their most important game of the year this Saturday when they visit the University of Washington. Kickoff is set for 4:30 p.m. and the game will be televised on Channel 11. Washington is the No. 4 ranked team in the nation and they have one of the best quarterbacks in nation in 6-2, 209 pound Jake Browning. “Washington’s quarterback jumps off the table,” said USC head coach Clay Helton. “He is very accurate and that is the reason the kid is up for the Heisman award....
The USC Trojans are hoping to keep pace with the rest of the Pac-12 elite teams with a win over the Oregon Ducks this Saturday at the Coliseum. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. Although the Ducks are having a down year they are still an explosive offensive team. The Ducks come into the game with an overall record of 3-5 and they are tied for last place in the Pac-12 North Division at 1-4. The Trojans are 5-3 overall and currently in third place in the Pac-12 South Division with a record of 4-2. Right...
The UCLA football team is hoping that its bye week will help them regroup and put them in a position to climb back into the winning column. They have lost three games in a row and they have dropped to fifth place in a si- team Pac-12 Southern Conference. Their overall record is 3-5 and they are 1-4 in conference play. Their running game has basically disappeared and their passing game, without injured star quarterback Josh Rosen creates to many turnovers with costly interceptions. Last week...
The UCLA football team cannot afford another loss in the Pac-12 if they expect to have a winning season and make it to a respectable bowl game during the holidays. They have five more regular season games remaining on their schedule beginning with Saturdays’ game against No. 19 Utah at the Rose Bowl. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. and the game will be televised on Channel 11. The Bruins come into the game with a record of 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the Pac-12. At 1-3 the Bruins are just one game away f...
The UCLA football team cannot afford another loss in the Pac-12 if they expect to have a winning season and make it to a respectable bowl game during the holidays. They have five more regular season games remaining on their schedule beginning with Saturdays’ game against No. 19 Utah at the Rose Bowl. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. and the game will be televised on Channel 11. The Bruins come into the game with a record of 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the Pac-12. At 1-3 the Bruins are just one game away f...
The USC Trojans and the UCLA Bruins play important Pac-12 football games Saturday. The 2-3 Trojans are at home against the 4-1 and No. 21 Colorado Buffalos at the Coliseum at 1 p.m. The 3-2 Bruins face the 2-3 Arizona State Sun Devils on the road at 7:30 p.m. The quarterbacks on both of the local teams are playing well right now. Red-shirt USC freshman, Sam Darnold threw for 352 yards and three touchdowns last week in a victory over Arizona State and UCLA signal caller, Josh Rosen completed 20...
The UCLA Bruins and USC Trojans football teams will host Arizona and Arizona State on Saturday. If you are a fan of both teams you will need to flip a coin to determine which game you will attend. USC is 1-3 and 4-0 Arizona State play at 5:30 p.m. and 2-2 UCLA and 2-2 Arizona kick off at 7:30 p.m. If you decide to stay home USC’s game will be televised on Channel 11 and UCLA will be on ESPN. Both teams are coming off heart-breaking losses to Pac-12 teams. Utah beat USC 31-27 and Stanford d...
The UCLA Bruins football team will try to do what USC failed to accomplish last week, beat Stanford. Stanford, rated in the top 10 nationally, is the defending Pac-12 and Rose Bowl champion. They also have one of the best players in the nation in Christian McCaffrey. The Bruins lock horns with the Cardinal on Saturday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. and the game will be televised on Channel 7 or ESPN. UCLA will have to play its best game of the year if it expects to beat...
UCLA and USC play important road games Saturday after winning their home openers last Saturday. The Bruins beat UNLV 42-21 and the Trojans exhausted Utah State 45-7. Both teams will need to be at their best when UCLA travels to Utah to face BYU and USC has a date on the Farm when the play No. 7 Stanford in Palo Alto. Stanford is led by consensus All-American, last season’s Rose Bowl Offensive Player of the Game Christian McCaffrey. He ran for 2,019 yards last year and became the first player i...
The UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans hope to get on the winning track when the Bruins face UNLV and the Trojans battle Utah State on Saturday. Both teams will be looking for their first win of the 2016 season. The Bruins were beaten in overtime against Texas A&M 31-24 and the Trojans were whipped by Alabama 52-6. Is Alabama that good, are the Trojans that bad? Time will tell but the Trojans are hoping the Crimson Tide is really that outstanding. If USC, which plays one of the toughest schedules i...
West Los Angeles College started the 2016 football season off with an offensive explosion when they beat rival Santa Monica College 47-34 last Saturday on the West Los Angeles campus. "We battled hard and I like the way we competed," said West Los Angeles head coach Marguet Miller after the win. "We beat a good team but we also need to make sure we don't beat ourselves. We have to improve on not turning the ball over." West Los Angeles' next home game will be Saturday, September 17 at 1 p.m....
UCLA and USC football teams will start their 12 game regular season Saturday when both teams travel to Texas. UCLA will play Texas A&M at 12:30 p.m. on Channel 2 and USC faces the No. 1 team in the country, Alabama in Arlington at 5 p.m. on Channel 7. Both teams return home next week on September 10. The Trojans play Utah State at 11 a.m. at the Coliseum and the Bruins will battle UNLV at 5 p.m. at the Rose Bowl. This season the Bruins will be led by quarterback Josh Rosen, defensive lineman...
The UCLA Bruins football team will go into the 2016 season with a lot of question marks but one question they already have an answer to. They have one of the best quarterbacks in the nation in sophomore Josh Rosen. Now can the rest of the Bruins play consistent football for 12 games? “Josh has a chance to be very special,” said UCLA head coach Jim Mora during Pac-12 Media Day last week in Hollywood. “He has great arm strength. He is smart and he has a great feel for the game. He can make all o...
Former USC football star Lynn Swann has been chosen as the new Trojan Athletic Director. Swann, a wide receiver who played on four NFL championship teams, was a first round draft choice of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1994. He will succeed Pat Haden, who will retire as USC’s Athletic Director on July 1. Look for an Observer interview with Swann in an upcoming edition....
Former USC quarterback Pat Haden will retire as the school’s athletic director on June 30. At that time Haden will begin a new job, overseeing the renovation of the Coliseum for the Rams, who will play there until a new stadium is constructed in Inglewood. Although Haden has health issues he feels able to work in his new capacity....
USC’s Clay Helton, who successfully made the rare transition from interim coach to head coach after taking over mid-season after Steve Sarkisian was fired, has been selected the 2015 Coach of the Year by the Los Angeles Sports Council. Helton will be honored at the 11th Annual LA Sports Awards, which will be held on Thursday, February 25 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Helton succeeded in keeping the Trojans together during a challenging set of off-field circumstances. Under his leadership, the Trojans won four straight conference games and d...
USC’s Clay Helton, who successfully made the rare transition from interim coach to head coach after taking over mid-season after Steve Sarkisian was fired, has been selected the 2015 Coach of the Year by the Los Angeles Sports Council. Helton will be honored at the 11th Annual LA Sports Awards, which will be held on Thursday, February 25 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Helton succeeded in keeping the Trojans together during a challenging set of off-field circumstances. Under his leadership, the Trojans won four straight conference games and d...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The 2016 Rose bowl game will showcase two physical teams that are almost identical. Stanford and Iowa rely on their running games and efficient play from their quarterbacks and both teams look to capitalize on their opponents’ mistakes. What sets No. 5 Iowa (12-1) and No. 6 Stanford (11-2) apart is Christian McCaffrey of the Stanford Cardinal. On Friday January 1 at 2 p.m. in the Rose Bowl the nation will get the opportunity to see what the west coast has witnessed this year. They will see why he was the H...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The 2015 season was supposed to be the year UCLA stepped up to the head of the class. After their 37-29 loss to Nebraska in the Foster Farms Bowl last Saturday in Santa Clara the 8-5 Bruins are stuck in the middle of the line. Losing to a good Nebraska team is not the problem. That loss just exposed their lack of depth on defense. After a series of injuries on defense to key players at the beginning of the season the Bruins were beaten in five of their last nine...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The are 40 college football bowls games this year and next year which will include 80 teams. Every game has special events leading up to the game that makes that particular game standout and make players, coaches and fans want to visit that city a little more than others. When it comes to special events Lawry’s Beef Bowl is the golden standard. Now in its’ 60th year the Beef Bowl rivals Disneyland as one of the highlights for the two teams who play in the Rose Bowl. This year the 12-1 Iowa Hawkeyes and the 11-...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter It’s a great time to be a local college sports fan. USC and UCLA football teams are headed to local bowl games. The Bruins and Trojans women’s volleyball teams are in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The UCLA men’s water polo team won the NCAA championship with a victory over USC last week and the Bruins and Trojans men and women basketball teams have come up with some impressive wins so far this season. The 8-4 UCLA football team will face a 5-7 Nebraska team in the Foster Farms Bowl at Levi’s Stadium...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The USC football team showed it can win games on paper and on the field when they beat UCLA 40-21 last Saturday at the Coliseum to capture the Pac-12 South Division championship. They recruit some of the best athletes in the nation but sometimes they play like C students. Last Saturday they all got A's on the field. That victory over UCLA not only put them in the championship game it got their interim head coach Clay Helton the permanent job for the next five...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter Here we go again. The big game on Saturday has turned into a huge game for the UCLA and USC football teams. The winner will grab first place out of the jaws of an up and down season and meet Stanford in the Pac-12 championship game next month in Santa Clara. Kickoff for this cross-town rivalry game is set for 12:30 p.m. and the game will be televised by Channel 7. USC will be looking to stop UCLA’s three game winning streak and the Trojans’ senior quarterback Cody Kessler hopes to pull rank on UCLA’s fresh...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter Despite losing to underdog Washington State last Saturday at the Rose Bowl, 31-27, the UCLA Bruin football team can still win the South division and conference championships in the Pac-12 if they win their next two games. They face Utah on the road Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and USC on November 28, at the Coliseum. The game against Utah will be televised on channel 11. If the 7-3 Bruins expect to reach those championship games they will have to cut down on their penalties, stop making mental mistakes and hold the op...
